NP-

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Np \Np\ n.
     The chemical symbol for Neptunium, a transuranic element
     having atomic number 93.
  
     Syn: Neptunium, atomic number 93.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Np
       n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace
            amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production
            of plutonium [syn: {neptunium}, {atomic number 93}]
       2: a registered nurse who has received special training and can
          perform many of the duties of a physician [syn: {nurse
          practitioner}, {nurse clinician}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NP
       Network Performance
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NP
       No Problem (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level
     or quality of difficulty; the connotation is often `more so than it
     should be'. This is generalized from the computer-science terms
     `NP-hard' and `NP-complete'; NP-complete problems all seem to be very
     hard, but so far no one has found a proof that they are. NP is the set
     of Nondeterministic-Polynomial algorithms, those that can be completed
     by a nondeterministic Turing machine in an amount of time that is a
     polynomial function of the size of the input; a solution for one
     NP-complete problem would solve all the others. "Coding a BitBlt
     implementation to perform correctly in every case is NP-annoying."
  
     Note, however, that strictly speaking this usage is misleading; there
     are plenty of easy problems in class NP. NP-complete problems are hard
     not because they are in class NP, but because they are the hardest
     problems in class NP.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  NP
       
           {nondeterministic polynomial time}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  np
       
           The {country code} for Nepal.
       
          (1999-01-27)